Paranormal Lincoln Records

Grey Lady

Location: Lincoln - Black Horse restaurantType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1980s onwardFurther Comments: Wearing a long dress, this phantom woman caused one cleaner to run away terrified. The ghost has also been seen standing outside the building - the witness this time described the woman has having a blurry face. The pub is also reportedly plagued by general poltergeist behaviour.

Humphrey

Location: Lincoln - Browns Pie Shop - restaurantType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Staff have nicknamed this young phantom lad Humphrey. He occasionally puts in an appearance, running around the shop. A young girl is also said to haunt the building, as is the sound of money being counted.

Location: Lincoln - Cobb HallType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This horrid ghost reportedly once tried to push a young child down the staircase, saved only by the quick reflexes of the father who then watched the woman disappear from view.

Young Boy

Location: Lincoln - Coffee shop (exact location withheld)Type: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Circa 2011Further Comments: It was reported that this coffee shop was haunted by a young boy who had been seen close to the toilets. One member of staff spotted a middle aged man in a grey suit upstairs in the café just as the shop was closing and was empty. When the member of staff went upstairs to speak to the man, he had vanished.

Young Man

Location: Lincoln - Cornhill Vaults public houseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2000s?Further Comments: A member of staff was left puzzled after seeing a young man with a collarless shirt walk up to the bar vanish when she turned her back for a few seconds. The only other customer in the bar denied seeing any one in the first place.

Dark Shadows

Location: Lincoln - Council house along Prial AvenueType: PoltergeistDate / Time: 2004 - February 2010Further Comments: Jade Callaby reported to local media that she had experienced poltergeist occurrences over a six year period, including dark shadows which appeared without source, electrical items which turned themselves on and off, and strange banging noises.

Cavalier

Location: Lincoln - County Assembly Rooms, BailgateType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Late twentieth centuryFurther Comments: A phantom Cavalier was spotted by a member of staff near the ballroom, before vanishing into the preverbal thin air. Other staff members are reportedly too afraid to venture down into the basement after hearing strange noises.

Guardian Angel?

Location: Lincoln - Edward King's HouseType: OtherDate / Time: Late nineteenth centuryFurther Comments: Two would-be robbers who had lured the bishop from his home in the late nineteenth century were deterred from committing the crime by a large figure they saw leave the house escorting the man of the cloth. When one of the criminals confessed his intention to the bishop many years later, the bishop was very surprised as he had been travelling by himself on that night.

Evil Presence

Location: Lincoln - Exchequergate HouseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Late twentieth centuryFurther Comments: The cellar of this building, formally a tourist information centre, had such a repressive feeling that staff would only go down in two or threes. Faces have been reported looking out of the windows, even after the building has been locked up for the night.

Open the Gates!

Location: Lincoln - Flat area at top of Steep Hill, outside castle gateType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1992 (horseman), and sometime between 2009 and 2012 (breath)Further Comments: A night worker returning home early in the morning was unnerved as a man riding a black horse charged by him. As the rider approached the locked castle gates, he screamed 'Open the gates! Open the gates!' before vanishing near the still closed entrance. Another witness reported feeling breathing on the back of the neck, hearing strange footsteps and seeing shadows.

White Woman

Location: Lincoln - Great Hall, near Edward King's HouseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: The woman who haunts this building may be connected to the skull which is bricked up within a wall. The skull once stood in a room, but when it was removed from the building it started to scream. The owners decided it would be for the best to brick it up in a wall to prevent future accidental removal.

Mary Cooper

Location: Lincoln - Green Dragon public houseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1990sFurther Comments: The ghost which haunts this public house is said to be Mary Cooper, who once worked in the building prior to be becoming a pub. She has been seen smoking a pipe, and is blamed when bottles are found broken, beer pumps are turned off, and for once snapping a kitchen knife in two.

Rolling Head

Location: Lincoln - Greestone StairsType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2000sFurther Comments: A phantom, rolling head is reported to bounce down this steep area, bowling over anyone not quick enough to move out of the way! The area has also had reports of phantom monks and a ghostly woman holding a baby.

Blonde Girl

Location: Lincoln - Home NightclubType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Circa 2015Further Comments: It was reported that, while alone, one member of staff spotted a blonde girl sitting on a stool. She vanished as the member of staff looked back in that direction. It is said people would hear their names being called when alone.

Victorian Children

Location: Lincoln - Jesters fancy dress shopType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2000sFurther Comments: Owners of the shop, Hazel Smith and her son James, and another employee reported that the building is haunted by Victorian children.

Footsteps

Location: Lincoln - Jew's House - restaurantType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1990sFurther Comments: Reports from this establishment claim the phantom footsteps can be heard on the staircase, while the top floor and attic are said to be particularly haunted. One witness reported hearing voices in the passageways and pots and pans being moved around in the empty kitchen.

Name Caller

Location: Lincoln - Jolly Brewer public houseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2000sFurther Comments: Members of staff have reported hearing a voice which calls them by name, but can never find who or what is responsible.

Cleric

Location: Lincoln - Lincoln CathedralType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 05 December 2004Further Comments: This seventeenth century holy man has been seen climbing the steps at the front of the cathedral. The last witnesses to see him reported a chain hanging from his neck. The bells have also been pealed by an unseen hand, while legend says a procession of praying monks haunt the cloisters.
A suicidal woman named Constance who jumped from the tower during the 1960s returns to re-enact her final, desperate action.
Finally, an immovable bloodstain is said to remain on the floor where a stained glass window master landed after leaping from the gallery - he became depressed after his apprentice created a superior window from the master's off-cuts.

The Lincoln Imp

Location: Lincoln - Lincoln CathedralType: LegendDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This little creature created chaos in the cathedral, until a passing angel transformed him to stone. He now sits high up within the cathedral.

Voices

Location: Lincoln - Lincoln City Football ClubType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2001 - 2004, & November 2009Further Comments: In 2009 the Shadow Seekers Paranormal Investigation Team reported recording disembodied voices in the football ground, with most activity recorded at 'the dugout'. A former worker had claimed a few years prior to this they had spotted a shadow walk across the pitch and felt a presence in the directors room, which was described as 'playful'.

Woman with her Hair in a Bun

Location: Lincoln - Lion and Snake public houseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1980sFurther Comments: This pub claims to have at least two ghosts. One takes the form of an old woman with her grey haired tied up in a bun - she is said to look completely solid and has been mistaken for a real person on one occasion. Another entity takes the form of a scruffy man, and has been observed vanishing through a solid wall.

Cold Presence

Location: Lincoln - Observatory Tower, Lincoln CastleType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: April 2004Further Comments: A family reported a strange cold feeling come over them as they climbed this tower, and a photograph they took of the building revealed a strange figure. Several years previous, another pair of witnesses reported seeing two figures in front of them who vanished when they reached the top of the staircase.

Clark's Dog

Location: Lincoln - Outside Lincoln Castle wallsType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This malnourished hound, once owned by a criminal who was hanged, spent the rest of its life as a minor celebrity and now is occasionally spotted lurking around the castle walls.